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Horus Heresy in 40k


Ulrik_Ironfist

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You can play them against 40k, but you can't take 40k allies and still be battleforged. As far as I can tell though going unbound is just that.

 

Although it should be said that might not even be possible as 30k uses a different allies matrix.

 

Really it's down to your group!

There is a 7th ed FaQ found on forgeworld (link: http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/resources/fw_site/fw_pdfs/Horus_Heresy/Horus_Heresy_7th_Edition.pdf ) that should give you the info you need.

 

That said, since 30k uses a different allied Matrix and FoC to standard 40k, unless agreed upon beforehand, 40k-30k allied lists are a no-go.

Don't mix and match.

 

The whole beauty of 30k rules is the fact they are more toned down, regimented and balanced.

 

Also, 40k Marines are more competitive by a long shot in the 40k meta.

 

Eldar, new Tau, Necrons, Ad-Mech and so on would overpower a 30k Legion quite easily on the tabletop.

I only play friendly games with a small group, so it wouldn't be a big issue. I mostly want to know if it's possible for fluff reasons. I dated my army back to the Great Crusade and had them lost after the Horus Heresy. So it would makes sense for an army that old to have some of the old weapons an equipment in the inventory. As well as having some of the new stuff too. That's really the only reason I want to do it. 

 

I'd really only do it within my group of gamers.

I don't know... it seems to me like this is likely to produce some really weird, broken combinations. While I could see myself playing my 30k army against, say, a xenos army (perhaps slightly modified) to represent some of the battles that took place before the Heresy, it seems like mixing army lists like that is a recipe for a headache.

That Fleet Support wing is a lord of war slot? I don't see it in battlescribe, or in the Conquest book. Am I looking in the right place?

 

Where is the Aquilla? Or did you mean the Arvus? Can the infantry take an Arvus as a DT? I thought they could only take the Dracosan? 

Ive not got my books to hand but you should be able to take 1-3 flyers not statted elsewhere in 30k as 1 lord of war choice as Fleet support wing or something similar, its probably under the generic LoW rules rather than the list itself.

Looking at the wording, it says for the age of darkness allies to use the chart in a game where the primary detatchment is a Crusade list and an allied detachment represents a different legion. Wouldn't this mean you could still use the 40k one when the allied detachment isn't a different legion, but something else entirely?

Holy censored.gif people obviously Solar Auxillia allying with guard is Imperial Army allying with Imperial Army.

That's what I thought, but that seemed too simple.

Ive not got my books to hand but you should be able to take 1-3 flyers not statted elsewhere in 30k as 1 lord of war choice as Fleet support wing or something similar, its probably under the generic LoW rules rather than the list itself.

Can someone give me a reference to this?

Holy censored.gif people obviously Solar Auxillia allying with guard is Imperial Army allying with Imperial Army.

Actually, in this instance, I'd look at the imperial guard as the Imperial Militia and take it from there.

Still, at the end of the day, it's still a house rule and you're fudging it depending on what you think is right.

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